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Adrianne Stacey

Adrianne Stacey

Métis Indigenous mental health advocate and survivor of the psychiatric system based in British Columbia, Canada

Aug 7, 2026

0:23
Could you share some stories from your childhood, how your early childhood was, and could you share something?
0:36
Yeah, my situation is quite extreme.
0:41
My Métis family, Métis Cree from the Plains, with history back to the fork of the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
0:53
But my mother and aunt were born just prior to world war two.
0:59
Um, and we're born in Victoria, British Columbia, although we're from the plains.
1:07
And, um, My grandmother married an Englishman, you know, who brought her to Victoria.
1:16
And my great-grandparents were the original settlers who bought the land and developed and brought power in and built a marina down at Goldstream, which is the mountain on the highway coming out of Victoria going north.

14 MINS LATER

15:34
is the hole they wanted to have over you in a way of a surveillance almost

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